Kellogg Application Deadlines for 2010-2011

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management recently released its application deadlines for the 2010-2011 admissions season. This year there are just some subtle changes, which we’ll cover below.

Kellogg presents and uses its admissions deadlines a little differently than most other schools, and it can be a little hard for an applicant to follow. For each round, the first deadline is the date by which you should contact the admissions office to set up an interview. At Kellogg, the applicant initiates the interview process, not the school.

Here are Kellogg’s admissions deadlines, followed by our comments in italics:

These deadlines are quite similar to last year’s, although note that the deadline for contacting Kellogg for a Round 1 off-campus interview is now a bit earlier, on September 24. This is consistent with the trend we’ve seen across most of the top MBA programs, with deadlines creeping forward a little more each year. Note that, for the first time, Kellogg will send out Round 1 decisions in December (by December 20, to be exact), giving you a couple of weeks to pull together Round 2 applications to other schools if you don’t get into Kellogg.